{"title":"JAMA Patient Page advises drug users on harm reduction","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contributing writer for the <i>Journal of the American Medical Association</i> (<i>JAMA</i>) gave harm reduction advice on the <i>JAMA</i> Patient Page in the current issue, published online February 19. The <i>JAMA</i> Patient Page is described by <i>JAMA</i> as a “public service.” This article is evidence of established medicine's embrace of already established harm reduction techniques, which eschew treatment in favor of continuing illicit drug use “safely.”</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 8","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researchers make case for cancer warnings on alcohol","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34420","url":null,"abstract":"<p>U.S. researchers and government officials appear to be on the same page regarding the evidence linking alcohol use and increased risk of several types of cancer, but this consensus is not reflected in labeling language on alcoholic beverage products. Seeing the U.S. now lagging behind some other countries in this respect, some members of the research community are arguing for an addition to warning label language that has gone unchanged for 35 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 8","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming Up…","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34426","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <b>Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction Meeting</b> will be held <b>April 3-5, 2025</b> in Providence, Rhode Island. For more information, go to https://addictionpsychology.org/conventions/cpa/2025-collaborative-perspectives-addiction-meeting</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 8","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizations worry about DEI ban","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34425","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It took less than 24 hours for some organizations to absorb the hold the federal government has over them, if they take federal funds. Those groups which were outspoken in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs immediately put out notice that they would no longer pass on federal funds to any partner or subcontractor espousing DEI.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 8","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EDs and patient navigators key to starting and continuing buprenorphine","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34419","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Emergency department clinicians increased their prescriptions for buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in California from 2017 to 2022, researchers have found. However, only 1 in 9 patients went on to receive continuous buprenorphine prescriptions within 1 year.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 8","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Peer Recovery Workforce and Illicit Drug Use: Reductio Ad Absurdum","authors":"Bill Stauffer","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34423","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, our field has undergone significant challenges to accommodate drug use within the framework of addiction recovery. It has occurred in our private sector and within government. Perhaps the clearest example being in Government. In its 2022-2026 strategic plan, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) defined recovery as <i>“different things to different people. Broadly speaking, it is a process of change through which people improve their health and well-being while abstaining from or lessening their substance use or by switching to less risky drug use. For some, this may mean complete abstinence; for others, recovery could be ceasing problematic drug use, developing effective coping strategies, improving physical and mental health, or experiencing some combination of those or other outcomes.”</i></p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 8","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Court forestalls NIH cuts – for now","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34424","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Trump Administration lowered the indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and other National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funders to 15%. This is much lower than the 60% allowed in the past and recently. As a result, some academic medical centers immediately cut back on travel and other spending for their researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 8","pages":"6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"West Virginia researchers look at quit attempts before success","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34412","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Relapse when giving up opioids, alcohol, cigarettes, or other drugs is common. Now researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC's Addiction Recovery Research Center have looked at the number of tries that may be needed before treatment is successful.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 7","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marijuana policy group marshals forces in Washington, DC","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34413","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) and the Foundations for Drug Policy Solutions (FDPS) met in Washington this month immediately following the CADCA conference (see CADCA: Prevention day, SAMHSA agenda, youth leadership highlighted, <i>ADAW</i> February 10, 2025; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adaw.34400).</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 7","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"House hearing ends with fentanyl bill witnesses recommended against","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34410","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A February 6 hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health focused on fentanyl. Despite recommendations by two physicians and a university professor against doing so, the full House passed the HALT Fentanyl Act later that day. Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-Kentucky), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Congressman Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (Georgia-R), chairman Subcommittee on Health, sponsored the bill, which passed by a vote of 312 to 108.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 7","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}